ipl-logo

Violence Against Women Essay

1052 Words5 Pages

Violence against women
Definition
The United Nation’s General Assembly definition of 1993 is “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.” 1
Prevalence
Global prevalence figures according to the World Health Organisation in 2013 indicate that:
• 35% of women worldwide have experienced either intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.2
• Almost 30% of all women who have been in a relationship have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by their partner.2
• 38% of murders of women globally were …show more content…

Intimate partner violence
Intimate partner violence involves behaviour by either a current or former intimate partner which causes harm to a woman be it physical, sexual or psychological. 2 It includes many behaviours such as physical aggression, sexual coercion and psychological/emotional abuse. 2
Sexual violence/Rape
Sexual violence is any act directed against a person’s sexuality using coercion by any person in any setting.3 It includes but is not limited to rape which is defined as “physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration of the vulva or anus with a penis, other body part or object”. 4
Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation is also known as female circumcision and involves the partial or total removal of genitalia or other injury to female genital organs.3 There are different types of female genital mutilation, the most severe of which is the removal of the external genitalia and closure of the wound, known as infibulation.3

Show More
Related

  • History Of NOW: The National Organization For Women

    1297 Words  | 6 Pages

    Women are stripped of their ability to be able to live a life full of dignity and respect. A woman is assaulted or beaten every 9 seconds in the United States. There are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide daily. Weapons are involved in 19% of domestic violence. Victims of domestic violence have higher suicidal and depression rates.

    Read More

  • Ted Bundy Research Paper

    3188 Words  | 13 Pages

    Sexual violence constitutes different types, for example, rape (the coercion of sex to a nonconsenting party). Sexual violence could also be molestation (for instance, paedophilic actions), unwanted sexual comments, forced marriages, failed BDSM (bondage,

    Read More

  • Intimate Partner Violence In Canada

    913 Words  | 4 Pages

    The day when I first experienced intimate partner violence was the day when my entire world turned upside down. I was only 18 when I met my first husband. He was smart, handsome, and could speak about everything. I thought love and happiness would last forever. We become engaged after two months; and got married after six.

    Read More

  • Annotated Bibliography On Intimate Partner Violence

    1728 Words  | 7 Pages

    Intimate Partner Violence and Advocacy Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global public health issue that has existed for centuries and is a major problem in the United States. Intimate partner violence can be defined as the physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence by a current or previous intimate partner. Such harmful acts are done by the abuser to have power and control over the victim. It can affect anyone, regardless of race, gender, socio-economic status, or sexual orientation.

    Read More

  • Sexual Violence Against Native American Women Essay

    734 Words  | 3 Pages

    Sexual violence can affect anyone. There is no end all be all strategy to avoid any and all sexual violence. However, studies have shown that some people are more likely to be affected by sexual violence than others. Typically, the people most likely to be at risk of sexual violence are people who are disenfranchised, in prison where a whole different cultural dynamic exists and people who can’t care for themselves. Just a few of these groups are Native American women, male prisoners, and children.

    Read More

  • Domestic Violence: Spousal Abuse In The United States

    1282 Words  | 6 Pages

    Spousal Abuse People often turn away from issues that do not affect them, but this only lets the issue grow further until there is nothing left to do but deal with it. This could be why domestic violence has been taking place for centuries now. One issue that comes with domestic violence is spousal abuse- a problem that only seems to be getting worse, with ten million victims being beaten by an intimate partner each year (“Domestic Violence”). Although spousal abuse seems to be an ongoing issue in the United States, efforts are being made at both national and local levels to suppress the violence.

    Read More

  • Intimate Partner Violence Essay

    1492 Words  | 6 Pages

    What if you were in a relationship that had been going great, nothing but happiness, your partner gets a little jealous of other people who have some interest in you and they have their own opinion on what they think you should be doing? That’s usually normal and it might be cute and reassuring that they care about you and they just want you to be theirs. But what happens when they want something from you that you don’t feel comfortable with and they have no other way to force you to do something as small as what they want you to wear or to make you go to a new step in your relationship that you don’t agree with and might not be ready for? They might go to the point where the only option to get what they want is to hurt you.

    Read More

  • Sexual Violence In The Poisonwood Bible

    1440 Words  | 6 Pages

    The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver shows the women of the Congo as being the workers of the family. They take care of the children, going so far as to carry them around constantly once they reach a certain age, and they are responsible for all the housework. The females are seen as capable and have many responsibilities. In spite of this, the reality for the real women of the Congo is that they are in constant fear of being a victim of sexual violence. Sexual violence can happen anywhere, but in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) it occurs on a daily basis (Ganzamungu and Maharaj 737).

    Read More

  • Feminist Theory Of Domestic Violence

    1232 Words  | 5 Pages

    Universally, domestic violence is referred to abusive behavior that is used by the intimate partner to control or power over the other intimate power. This can be in the forms of psychological, sexual, economic or emotional threats or actions that will influence your partner (Kindschi,2013).Domestic violence studies provides that psychopathology, which happens when in violent environment in child development can make the argument of domestic violence progress of being a generational legacy (Kindschi,2013).I chose to write about the Feminist Theory to explain why people commit domestic violence. It believes that the root causes of domestic violence is the outcome of living in a society that condones aggressive behavior by men, while women

    Read More

  • Intimate Partner Violence Against Women Essay

    1451 Words  | 6 Pages

    Although there are many forms of abuse, most Americans know that abuse typically is used to gain and have power over the person. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a major health problem in the United States. According to the World Health Organization fact sheet, IPV against women is defined as acts of physical or sexual assault against women by their current or former spouses, intimate partners, or dates. WHO also states, “Factors that are associated with intimate partner and sexual violence occur at individual, family, community and wider society levels” (WHO). A recent national survey done by Tjaden and Thoennes found out 76 percent of all rapes and physical assaults against adult women in the United States are perpetrated by a current or former husband,

    Read More

  • Essay On There Should Be Tougher Law Enforcement To Protect Against Domestic Violence

    951 Words  | 4 Pages

    Topic: There should be tougher law enforcement to protect against domestic violence. “The people who could do the most to improve the situation of so many victims being are in fact ourselves. It’s in our hand to stop domestic violence against each other” this statement was said by the famous actor Patrick Stewart. This statement is indeed correct. Domestic violence is an international problem which is everybody’s business even if one is not being abused.

    Read More

  • Rape Culture Essay

    1470 Words  | 6 Pages

    According to a study performed by the United Nations (Fulu), 70 percent of men who have sexually assaulted somebody do so because they believe that they are sexually entitled. Forty percent of those men who admitted to sexually assaulting a woman stated that they were “angry” or wanted to “punish” the victim. In this study consisting of 10,000 men from varying countries, half of them do not feel guilty. 5,000 men do not feel guilty for sexually assaulting women. 5,000 men that each felt entitled to a woman’s body and violated her privacy.

    Read More

  • Violence Against Women: A Feminist Analysis

    1614 Words  | 7 Pages

    Both men and women fall victim unto sexual and emotional abuse. Girls, however, are more likely than boys to have experienced repeated severe violence. Aisha Gill, in her article Violence Against Women : Current Theory and Practice in Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence, and Exploitation, studied the amounts and different types of abuse both men and women face in our modern society. The data showed that girls were significantly more likely than boys to experience sexual violence. Disconcertingly, 31% of girls and 16% of boys reported at least one experience of sexual violence (Gill, 109).

    Read More

  • Domestic Violence In The Emergency Center Essay

    1089 Words  | 5 Pages

    Twenty-two to thirty-five percent of women who visit emergency rooms are there for injuries related to ongoing abuse. This statistic, printed on a table slip by Brown University 's Women 's Center last year, was shocking. This table slip turns out to be more disappointing than shocking because the statistic is completely misleading. The statistic comes from the 1984 article "Domestic Violence Victims in the Emergency Department" published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

    Read More

  • Literature Review On Intimate Partner Violence

    517 Words  | 3 Pages

    Jacquelyn C. Campbell defines intimate partner violence as “physical or sexual assault, or both,” of a spouse or sexually intimate partner. She speaks about how damaging this type of violence can be to women. Campbell provided information from past studies to explain why interventions and assessments should be increased in health-care settings to identify more of these situations. The author looked at information from the past decade and used only the surveys that were in English.

    Read More

More about Violence Against Women Essay

Open Document